Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
Wars Victims.
What the Giva Var Cost in Human
Lives Most Deadly EUer
Wdged.
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Official returns show that about p
653, 900 Federal soldiers enlisted dur
the war in response to the successive
calls of President Lincoln, and that
of this number 1S6, ,097 were colored
troops,
Reports show that the Northern
and Southern armies met in over p
600 skirmishes and battles. In 14S
of these conflicts the loss on the Fed
eraI side was over 500 men, and in at
least ten battles over 10000 men re
ported lost on each side. The ap-
pended table shows that the combined
losses of the Federal and Confederate
forces in killed, wounded and missing
in the following engagements were:
Shiloh, 24,OOO; Antietam, $4,000 /;
Stone River, 22, 900; Chickamauga,
So, 900; McClellan's Peninsula cam
paign, $4,000; Grants Peninsula
campaign, 140, 900; and Sherman's
campaign $4,000.
Official statistics show that of the
2 ,G53, 900 men enlisted, there were
killed in battle Al, ,23S; died of
wounds, 40, ,2O9; died of disease,
1S6, PIG; died of unknown causes,
"a, 1917: total, 303, ,S43. This in
cludes only those whose death while
in the army had been actually proved.
To tins number Should be added first,
&c, 900 men who are known to have
died while in the hands of the enemy
as prisoners of war, and many others
in the same manner whose deaths are
unrecorded; second, fair per cent
age of the 2O5, ,794 men who are put
down on the official reports as de-
serters and missing In action, for
those who participated in the war
know that men frequently disappear
who, it was certain, had not deserted,
yet could not be otherwise officially
accounted for; third, thousands who
are buried in private cemeteries all
over the North who died while at
home on furlough.
The nations dead are buried in
seventy-thrce National cemeteries, of
which twelve are in the Northern
States. Among the principal ones in
the North, are:
Cypress Hill, with its 3,7S6 dead :;
Finn's Point, n. J., which contains the
remains of 2,644 unknown dead; Get
tysburg, Pa, with it's 1867 known
and 1,60S unknown dead; Mound
City, ILL.,, with 2,505 known and p
72l unknown graves; Philadelphia,
with ! 300 dead; and Woodlawn, Ell
mira, n. Y, with its $500 dead.
In the South, near the scenes of
terrible conflicts, are located the larg-
est repositories of the Nations he
roic dead:
Arlington, Va, 16,264, of which
1919 are unknown; Beaufort, S. c.,
9,241, of which 4, 4,493 are unknown !;
Chalmcttee, La, 2,511, of which 81
GA are unknown; Chattanooga,
Tenn, u, ,962, of which 4, 963 are un-
known; Fredericksburg, Va, 15,-
257, of which 12,770 are unknown !;
jefferson Barracks, Mo-, IL, 400, of
which $500 are unknown; Little
Rock, Ark, 5,6O2, of which 2,337
are unknown; City Point, Va, 81
122, of which 1874 are unknown !;
Marietta, Ca, 1O,151, of which p
963 are unknown; Memphis, Tenn,
1897, of which S,817 are unknown !;
Nashville, Tenn, 1926, of which
4,700 are unknown; Poplar Grove,
Va, 6,19O, of which 4,OO1 are un-
known; Richmond, ", 6.542, of
which 5, 700 are unknown; Salisbury,
n. c., 12, 126, of which 12,032 are
unknown; Stone River, Tenn, s.
COZ, of which 2S8 are unknown /;
Vicksburg, Miss, 16,60O, of which
12,7O4 are unknown; Antietam, Md. =,
4,761, of which 1873 are unknown; !;
Winchester, Va, 4,559, of which q
36j are unknown.
In all the remains of 800, 600 men
who fought for the Stars and Stripes
find guarded graves in odr National
mainly devoted to the brave men who
perished in the prison of the same
name-AndersonviIle, Ca, which
contains 1874 graves, and Sails
bury, with its u, 126 dead, of whom
1902 are unknown.
OF the vast number who are in
tered in our National cemeteries,
275. 900 sleep beneath the soil of the
Southern States, and 14j 900 of these
rest in graves marked unknown.
The total Confederate loss Will
never be known, but the best esti-
mates place it at about 220, 900 men
out of 1000, 900 men who served in
the Southern armies.
The total number of men furnished
to the Federal army by the United
States during the war under all calls